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National popular vote
The National Popular Vote (NPV) refers to the concept of allocating a state's presidential electors to the candidate who receives the most votes nationwide regardless of the state results in a presidential election. For example, if a state used NPV and voted for candidate A, but candidate B received the most votes nationwide, the state would allocate its presidential electors to candidate B. Under Article II, Section 1 of the United States Constitution, states have control over how they allocate their presidential electors.[1]
The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC) is an interstate compact to award member states' presidential electors to the candidate that receives the most votes nationwide. The NPVIC would go into effect if states representing at least the 270 of 538 electoral votes required to elect a president adopt the legislation.
As of July 2024, 17 states and Washington, D.C., had adopted legislation to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. Together, they represent 209 Electoral College votes.[2][3]
The compact would not take effect unless enough states have joined that the system would possess the required 270 of 538 electoral votes to elect a president.[1][3]
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 National Popular Vote, "Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote," accessed August 4, 2017
- ↑ National Popular Vote.com, Main page, accessed June 11, 2023
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 National Center for Interstate Compacts, "National Popular Vote Interstate Compact," accessed April 18, 2024 Cite error: Invalid
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